Tips for Aging-in-Place & Mobility Products
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Fall Prevention Products & Education |
Addressing Mobility Needs of Today |
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Unstable furniture, walkers tied to elderly falls. Use limitations & unintended uses play a role in injuries. |
Choosing the right mobility aids to address mobility needs.
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Learn how to make better home safety choices for seniors and aging parents. Tips: reduce falls/injuries. |
Listen to Invisible CareGiver® CEO Patrece Banks radio interview about Fall Prevention
on Coping with Caregiving interview #3 with Jacqueline Marcell
Don't forget bed safety in your senior home safety program:
*Difficulty performing activities of daily living among
Non-institutionalized Medicare beneficiaries, ages 65+, 2006:(CDC)
Getting In/Out of Bed/Chair 11.9%
Using Toilet 4.8%
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Mobility Products & Senior Safety
For sometime our website has focused on device safety and how the user interacts with mobility aids. Recently, a report was published focusing on the safety issues with walkers and canes. CDC link:
Those who recommend assistive devices should better understand a products intended use and use limitations. Reports like this are key to helping professionals understand that cheap, convenient or status quo mobility aids do not equal safe or effective and have risks. Many products have been recommended by professionals that lack proper knowledge of the risks. Reports like this will promote safety and quality in an area that has lacked both for sometime. Dedicated to helping individuals stay independent with dignity. CEO Patrece Banks is an active participant in:
Please be aware that assistive technology devices (AT) may often also be a medical device as well as a consumer product. The products on this site are all of the above. Medical devices are regulated by the FDA. You should be educated in their use, benefits and risks prior to recommending or using a product. Patents Pending *Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. National Center for Health Statistics. Health Data Interactive. www.cdc.gov/nchs/hdi.htm Updated July 13, 2009 |
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